Currently reading The Picutre of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, where I came across the description of Lord Henry's house. It goes like this -
"a very charming room,with its high-panelled wainscoating of olive-stained oak,its cream coloured frieze.."Opened OED to find out what the word 'frieze' meant. And I understood!(?) the synonym in its entirety.
- Part of entablature between architrave and cornice!Ha!
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"word bank" now sounds more appropriate... isn't it?? :)
ROTFL! :))
@ Sandip : Transition from book bank to Word bank eh?
@ lost in trance : Hee...hee!
am back .....tata eggjames.....
@ mark : Welcome back!
A dictionary does not contain synonyms usually, u look at a thesaurus for that, so u dint understand the synonym coz what u looked up was NOT the synonym! :) Meaning it was the meaning which dint mean much.
btw what is a frieze?
@ Nandan : OED was seriously better man!
Jeez., I thought Intel manuals were bad.
your book is talking about the cloth., and the dictionary is talking about a architecture thingy..
@ da rodent: Cloth?
hey geeky gal how r u........
nice post!!keep em coming!
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